Running just 120-odd pages in its most recent English translation by Douglas J. Weatherford, Juan Rulfo’s "Pedro Páramo" is as dense as it is short. The novel revolves around its titular character, don Pedro Páramo, as he maneuvers his way to the heights of regional, ranchero power in Comala, a remote town in the arid parts of West-Central Mexico. Its plot, though, defies the bounds of perspective and narrative coherency.
